A Quick Look at Shopinas -- online store in Philippines

According to Shopinas site, it is created by the Lina Group of Companies, sister company of Air21 and Mail & more. By the look it, it is not a start-up company.

Anyway, this is interesting. For once, it is a nice change from ebay with few ads, and sulit.com.ph with overpopulated ads that you would no longer can distinguish the real item from ads. I love multiply so I can't say bad about it.

I tried it, but I'm kind of turned off with their Registration page. There are too many fields, I'm quite overwhelmed. And, somehow there is no way I can register as just a 'shopper.' So maybe shoppers don't need to register?

But I believe all the requirements are for the protection of the buyers.

It's nice that the buyers are protected. But I'm wondering how a buyer can create an account without having to go through all the fields required for a seller/merchant. Also, with Shopinas, buyers are sort of limited to only use iBayad as a way to pay.

For a short period of time, I was hooked to local 'online' shopping -- getting my fill from ebay.ph but mostly from multiply. I ditch ebay because I did not have a pleasant experience with them -- disappointed with the items, and sellers took days to reply to your winning bid. So I used multiply more but I stopped it because:
* money issues - I'm losing my losing money.
* But it's more of my short attention span. Buying from a local online shop can take a long route, especially on the payment system -- have to go to Globe Center to refill my GCash (I don't like to pre-load it with lots of money because what if my phone gets lost) or go to a bank to deposit or Bayad Center. In between the time I click order and going out to make the payment, the impulsive-buying spirit is lost. While going to a bank to deposit, I might find other more interesting stuff to buy which might result to cancelling the order.

So what I wish for Shopinas is to provide a solution for my short attention span, how to not lost my impulsive-buying spirit. Maybe I just need to tinker more. =)